At U.S. base, Iraqis must use separate latrine

[Barrett808]

Source: McClatchy Newspapers

At U.S. base, Iraqis must use separate latrine
By Mike Drummond | McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Fri, August 3, 2007


A segregated latrine in Iraq. (Mike Drummond/MCT)

FOB WARHORSE, Iraq — The sign taped to the men's latrine is just five lines:

"US

MILITARY

CONTRACTORS

CIVILIANS

ONLY!!!!!"

It needed only one: "NO IRAQIS."

Here at this searing, dusty U.S. military base about four miles west of Baqouba, Iraqis — including interpreters who walk the same foot patrols and sleep in the same tents as U.S. troops — must use segregated bathrooms.

Another sign, in a dining hall, warns Iraqis and "third-country nationals" that they have just one hour for breakfast, lunch or dinner. American troops get three hours. Iraqis say they sometimes wait as long as 45 minutes in hot lines to get inside the chow hall, leaving just 15 minutes to get their food and eat it.

It's been nearly 60 years since President Harry Truman ended racial segregation in the U.S. military. But at Forward Operating Base Warhorse it's alive and well, perhaps the only U.S. military facility with such rules, Iraqi interpreters here say.

Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/iraq/story/18685.html

[mikelgb]

1. charming

[Karenina]

2. It's the Amurikkkan way!

:toast:

[Maq]

3. Just following ORDERS

of the COMMANDER in THIEF

[Barrett808]

4. Nice! Welcome to DU, maq

:hi:

[MikeNearMcChord]

5. To whom the gods destroy, they first make mad.

And then they wonder why is the insurgency is determined to kick us out?

[GregW]

6. The guy that lost his wedding ring in the crapper...

... is in a world of shit when he gets home.

[Lex1775]

7. This is standard operating procedure.

It has been that way for decades. 3rd party nationals are kept seperated from US military members and US civilians/contractors in hostile locations.

[NW_BEAST]

8. While working

for the government, doing stuff in an undeclared capacity, I NEVER heard of that lex....could we get an operating manual, base order or some form of documentation of said policy?
Not trying to be a shit, but I don't recall it.

[Lex1775]

12. Probably not.

I am just going off personal experience here. It was that way at the bases I was at when I was in Kuwait, Oman, Afghanistan, Saudi and the UAE. To some extent it was that way in Korea as well.

On two occasions I can recall having it briefed to myself and the rest of my crew specfically, once when we got in country in Afghanistan and one when we were in Kuwait. Both times the gist of the brief was "We use those facilities, all the third party nationals use those. Don't intermingle, we don't want any incidents, base commanders orders."

[ohio2007]

9. Sign says sombody lost their 14k gold wedding band....

Why would they post a reward for the return of a ring on the shitter door?


odd.
dunno what the arabic sign really says.

If you voted for * you can't shit here.....


cuz your- ;)

[MisterP]

10. Marines introduced Jim Crow into Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic

when they controlled those countries in the 1900s-20s, disgusting the local populations to no end

[MisterP]

11. dupe--sneezed while posting

[SunDrop23]

13. Nice use of spell check...CONTRACORS

MORANS!

[Celeborn Skywalker]

14. That's pretty damn disgusting.

This should be stopped immediately but of course it will probably be allowed to go on.

[Screwfly]

15. It's question of safety not race.

The latrines, chow hall are obviously segregated for security reasons, much the way the facilities at American prisons segregated between staff and inmates.

The 64,000 dollar question is what are we doing in a country where none of the locals can't be trusted period.

[Phrogman]

16. You folks ever seen a public shithouse in the third world?

I guess not or this thread wouldn't exist.

[AwakeAtLast]

17. What does that matter?

Are our military leaders too good to have to share with the "brown people" who work on their base? :shrug:

Why does the U. S. get to decide who uses certain bathrooms in a country that is not their own? :shrug:

The arrogance astounds me.

[Barrett808]

18. Can you clarify your point?

This is a shithouse on a US military base, not the "Third World".

[ohio2007]

20. C'mon, nobody's going to booby trap the shitter.Iraq isn't Viet Nam

nt

[tom_paine]

19. Creating the Bushmerika oftheir dreams in Imperial Fredomstan

We are enslaving them over there, so the Royal Bushies can follow us home and enslave us over here.

[IndianaGreen]

21. India has her "untouchables," and now we got ours.

Our shit don't smell!